smurfton:Well, you already know I'm all for explaining things. Pros: it's dangerous to not know what's happening if you are around this stuff, Amie is going to be near us anyway and she'll work stuff out eventually, the Botfly only seems to need proximity to grant wishes.Cons: public knowledge would potentially be a very bad thing.

"We'll explain in a second Amie."

"We will?" asks Kendra. "Since when?"

"The not-telling-people thing isn't working out," says Bina. "And I think we especially need to tell Amie because botfly reasons."

"What?" asks Kendra, and then a moment later figures it out herself. "Ooh. Yeah I didn't think about it from that angle. She would be really easy wouldn't she?"

"Hey!" says Amie, not sure if she should be mad about that one.

"Not easy like that," says Kendra. "Easy in a spooky dangerous way."

"Oh," says Amie. "That's ok then. I think. Is that ok?"

"We don't have time for this, we have to go!"

"We seem relatively safe here, and I want to wait for my sister to get back before we go anyware."

"Kendra, you're not listening. Gregor is here," says Bina. "I know it. If we leave he won't have any reason to be here. He'll go away."

"Are you sure about that? Where were you when he abducted the old man or the contractor woman? What about Elizabeth? Do you really think he'd have left her alone if we hadn't been there? And the police, the ones at the laundromat?"

"Which police?" asks Elizabeth. "What are we talking about? Is it the monsters? The power seems to be out to the whole block but I am noticing a distinct lack of monsters."

"Please try not to sound so disappointed."

"I'm not disappointed."

"I am!" says Amie. "Kind of…"

"I'm not disappointed, but I am rapidly losing all credibility with our two constables over there. What is going on?"